The Swarm Intelligence Freeway-Urban Trajectories (SWIFTraj) Dataset - Part II: A Graph-Based Approach for Trajectory Connection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21954v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:35:24 GMT
• Title: The Swarm Intelligence Freeway-Urban Trajectories (SWIFTraj) Dataset - Part II: A Graph-Based Approach for Trajectory Connection
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel graph-based approach for connecting vehicle trajectories captured by a UAV swarm.<n>An undirected graph is constructed to represent flexible UAV layouts, and an automatic time alignment method is developed to estimate optimal time offsets.<n>Results from real-world experiments show that the time alignment error is within three video frames, corresponding to approximately 0.1 s.
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• Abstract: In Part I of this companion paper series, we introduced SWIFTraj, a new open-source vehicle trajectory dataset collected using a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm. The dataset has two distinctive features. First, by connecting trajectories across consecutive UAV videos, it provides long-distance continuous trajectories, with the longest exceeding 4.5 km. Second, it covers an integrated traffic network consisting of both freeways and their connected urban roads. Obtaining such long-distance continuous trajectories from a UAV swarm is challenging, due to the need for accurate time alignment across multiple videos and the irregular spatial distribution of UAVs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel graph-based approach for connecting vehicle trajectories captured by a UAV swarm. An undirected graph is constructed to represent flexible UAV layouts, and an automatic time alignment method based on trajectory matching cost minimization is developed to estimate optimal time offsets across videos. To associate trajectories of the same vehicle observed in different videos, a vehicle matching table is established using the Hungarian algorithm. The proposed approach is evaluated using both simulated and real-world data. Results from real-world experiments show that the time alignment error is within three video frames, corresponding to approximately 0.1 s, and that the vehicle matching achieves an F1-score of about 0.99. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in addressing key challenges in UAV-based trajectory connection and highlight its potential for large-scale vehicle trajectory collection.

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